Neuroscience and Critical Thinking: Understand the Hidden Pathways of Your Thought Patterns- Improve Your Memory, Make Rational Decisions, Tune Down Emotional ... Expectations (The critical thinker Book 3)

by Albert Rutherford

because they cannot handle the idea of such a terrible event being random.

We tend to say "Oh, I've heard that before," without recognizing that we also heard that the statement was untrue.

Familiarity can be stronger than rational thought,

each time you learn new information your brain also updates the other things it knows.

The details in our memories are biased, constructed, and invented by necessity, and it's important that we recognize this. Researchers call this "memory contamination."